World of the Written Word

  Shags I must confess that I did not know what to expect of Chatham Island.  It was just such fun to fly away from locked-in Aotearoa-New Z...

  Three fine friends and I are just back from Chatham Island (Rekohu; Wharekauri), 800 kilometers or about 480 miles -- a flight of about 90...

  Bounty mutiny, Chris Mayger Captain William Bligh, Fletcher Christian.   Bounty . Names indelibly connected with the most famous mutiny in...

  Nomuka Island after the eruption.  Aerial photograph taken from a New Zealand air force plane. Diary of a Disaster: from the Guardian The ...

   To those are wondering, Butler Point Whaling Museum is a small museum in the Far North of New Zealand, where there is plenty of very old ...

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  Prolific writer of historical novels set at sea, Antoine Vanner (pictured with a friend above), kindly agreed to allow me to feature his f...

  Sometimes (well, quite often) Amazon makes me furious. Island of the Lost  has been a bestseller in various categories since the first pub...